Comment Re:Oh the irony! (Score 1) 357
An open-source developer calls an open-source driver "tainted crap", and recommend a commercial alternative instead.
I didn't see a recommendation? Did I miss something?
I'm a bit curious: are there any good open-source (or even free) virtualization software, aside from VirtualBox? Or might it be an area where FOSS just doesn't work very well (there are a few, IMHO).
Xen has been around for quite a long time, but due to the different kernel was hard to use casually. Nowadays KVM with the libvirt + layered tooling is an excellent choice and it's in the stock Linux kernel. KVM will rely on hardware virt support, but that's pretty standard now and because of it, can get very close to baremetal for performance. GUIs such as virt-manager are pretty good for desktop use - akin to VirtualBox. If you find it limiting, the underlying libvirt API and "virsh" type tools are solid.